Unicode to Kruti Dev Converter
Paste Hindi typed in Unicode (Mangal, Nirmala UI, Google Input Tools, phone keyboards) and get the same text in Kruti Dev 010 encoding, ready for documents that use the Kruti Dev font.
Kruti Dev and Unicode — what is the difference?
Kruti Dev 010 is an older Hindi font that places Hindi letters on the codes of English letters: the word भारत is stored as Hkkjr, and it only looks like Hindi when the Kruti Dev font is applied. Unicode is the international standard used by Mangal, Nirmala UI, Noto Sans Devanagari, Google Docs and every phone, so Unicode Hindi looks right everywhere — in browsers, email, WhatsApp and online application forms. That is why Kruti Dev text must be converted before it can be pasted into a website or form.
How to convert Unicode to Kruti Dev
Paste Unicode Hindi into the left box; the Kruti Dev text appears on the right. Copy it into your document and apply the Kruti Dev 010 font — without that font the result looks like English letters, which is expected.
Hindi typing tests and Kruti Dev
Many government offices and court typing tests still use Kruti Dev with the Remington keyboard, while computer-based tests usually use a Unicode font such as Mangal with the Remington (GAIL) or InScript layout. The recruitment notification names the font and layout that will be used — practise in the same one. This converter helps you move practice passages between the two.
Accuracy and limitations
The converter handles half letters, conjuncts (क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र, द्य), the short i-matra typed before the letter, reph (र्) typed after the syllable, nukta letters and Devanagari digits. Each Unicode to Kruti Dev result is checked by converting it back, and over 8 lakh words of Hindi text on this site convert back unchanged. English letters inside Hindi text cannot be represented in Kruti Dev (in that font every English key is a Hindi letter), and the symbols _ + % have no Kruti Dev glyph — check those by hand. It is built for Kruti Dev 010, the most common version; other Kruti Dev fonts that use the same keyboard layout convert the same way.